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First, let me say, I am very, very novice to model railroading. There is so much for me to learn. I am not however novice to electrical theory, I am way above the average man in understanding on this subject. I am not even sure how to state this. I am not trying to offend anyone, so please understand, I am trying to correct statements I see very often in the model rr community. Not neccessarily here, though it probably haqs been said here, but for safty, I have to say this.

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With all my stringing of lineside poles, it came time to span them over the Wolf River at Gills Landing. This is good for me however, as I returned to work on this area of the layout after the NMRA show this August. I started constructing a few details for this area. The first one however was the towers (poles?) for the river crossing. Here is a bad picture of a picture of the real place:




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Its progress I suppose.

Originally Posted by grrf

Hmm In a conundrum

when building idea for modules i wanted the 2 loop ends to have sidings etc if just connected to each other , ie the 2 sections this means the switches accessing any passing place or siding had to be on the end pieces.so as to remain small but functional ,

diagramatic of left return end, double all way round just didnt put it in

diagramatic of other end

the constraints

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Having recently freed up some space following the sale of my other layout ('Eagle Rock', an ON30 scale logging line set in the 1930s) I'm now very tempted to extend Mangadina. I've had this idea for some time now about building a rail museum so that I can use all those locos that I'd like to own, but which I just can't justify on my layout because they don't fit in with the era (modern) or the location (Wisconsin / Chicagoland). The best way seems to house them in a museum and then run special excursions. ...